The entirely predictable has happened. Two women have died from obvious and unconscionable medical malpractice. The blame was laid solely on the shoulders of Georgia’s abortion law: you know, the one that explicitly permits treatment of incomplete abortion and miscarriage, as well as abortions in cases of medical emergencies, rape, incest, and so on. The law allows abortion in medical emergencies whether or not there is a fetal heartbeat (as in this case, there almost certainly was not, meaning the procedure would not even begin to violate the law in the first place).
What exactly happened? Amber Nicole Thurman was a 28-year-old mother from Georgia, who went to North Carolina for an abortion. The clinic refused to perform her surgical abortion because she was over 15 minutes late, instead giving her abortion pills and letting her go home for a DIY abortion. For context, DIY abortions at home were banned in the Netherlands (one of the most pro-abortion countries in the world) because even the abortion clinics themselves said it was too medically risky. Back home, Thurman became septic from the abortion pills and her (in all likelihood dead) baby and went to the hospital. Instead of providing very basic emergency care (removing the baby’s body, which was causing the infection), the hospital waited 20 hours and Thurman consequently died.
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